Cons
Pushing the Scorecard metrics is a morale crusher for cashiers. If you can't push the customer rewards card, you probably won't last long here (as a cashier). Management usually stretched too thin (typical for retail), and that strain can trickle down to cashiers, sales floor associates, etc.

Advice to Senior Management
Advice to corporate: Be realistic with metrics, particularly Scorecard quotas. Customers don't like being harassed by cashiers that don't want to lose their jobs.

Pros
Some great people, fun/interesting work and product, employee discount, 401K, insurance, gym on-site, other benefits/perks, room for personal and professional growth (in some areas), work-life balance (some areas)

Cons
High turnover, poor communication from the top, often feels short term focused to hit numbers, discrepancies in compensation across the same position for no apparent reason (some areas), difficult advancement (some areas), long hours (some areas)

Advice to Senior Management
-Improve communication to the rest of company rather than us finding out information from outside sources first
-Adjust salaries to better reflect the value of the employee
-Think longer term rather than short term

Cons
Too many managers. Too many silos. Strange organizational structure that keeps changing. Very little consistencies in mission or strategy. Just keep things running so people can buy expensive products. Just keep putting out fires. Just keep replacing bodies when they quit. Place has no personality

Advice to Senior Management
Fire HR and start over. Quit wasting so much money on IT. You're being robbed.

Pros
Discounts available through pro plan and 3point5.com were the benefits

Cons
No payroll to adequately cover departments. Inefficient programs that corporate implementsome that further strain payroll

Advice to Senior Management
Nothing. As long as Ed Stack and the rest of the board of directors are more concerned with keeping the stock price high enough for them to make millions with insider stock purchase and dispositionso than a full-time hourly associate being able to pay their bills because they are being cut to 30 hours a week, nothing will change.

Pros
Assicoates are cool and like to have a good time
Always talking about sports
Cool Products

Cons
Always understaffed
Managers there are a joke
They will write you up for anything because of the no excuse policy. You could be shot put in the hospital and get written up. Your car could get stolen or you can get into an accident and get written up. Th managers and company have no compassion and apparently those are not excuses for you missing work.
They act like they care about customer service but some mangers dont even talk to customers and rude as can be towards them.
They over staff on days they dont need people but understaff on days were they know were going to get busy but dont care what so ever

Advice to Senior Management
Treat employees that give you a ton of customer serverys with more respect. As a company dont write people u for a minate late because you cant open to door in time. The policies are a joke. Managers play favorites and dont give people hours who have a ton availability.

Pros
Great office culture -- it very much represents the company. Many employees are very active and/or outdoorsy. Work life balance is valued. Professional growth of it's employees is encouraged and supported.

Cons
My only negative is that the office is in a very remote location, so I really disliked my commute.

Advice to Senior Management
When you hire someone for a position train them adequately for it. I worked as a "Customer Service Specialist" for over a year and was never shown how to propped do deposits because no one ever took the time to show me. Total waste of talent.

Pros
Excellent benefits. High quality insurance, vacation time and 401k.

Cons
No advancement from within. Most comes from outside hires. Morale is very low. Company is growing rapidly and in turn having growing pains. Higher ups very out of touch with day to day. That includes everyone from store manager to CEO. Many programs are implemented yet not actually applied my those forcing it to happen. Very uneasy place to work but that all could be avoided with some grassroots management.

Advice to Senior Management
Get an actual operations team in place for each district. Not managers actually people who have done the work and can go into stores for a week at a time and get them on task. So many operational changes yet not on DM or LPM can actually do it for a day. Some stores need time. They need a leader to work with them. After a week the person goes to the next store on a cycle. But it has to be someone who has actually done the job or you are just wasting everyone's time. And please promote from within and maybe every once in awhile you could promote a female who deserves it.

Cons
They focus too much on scorecard and credit card sign ups, they tell you they have let people go over poor performance,they teach you how to sign up people automatically even if they don't want the loyalty card. You won't get full time with benefits,manager gives you hours but will drop them right before you qualify for benefits.Most employees are just part time kids that do not care much about the job, they are late, call in sick all the time or just don't show up anymore,leaving the few responsible ones to deal with all the work at an ever short staffed store.

Advice to Senior Management
Don't force the credit card and loyalty card down people's throats via the employee,some people prefer miles over points they can only redeem at your store.Be humble and attend to your employees' needs, if you hire more full time employees with benefits the store in turn will benefit from it because you will attract reliable and responsible people.

Pros
Nice facility and location.
Flexible Work Arrangements like telecommuting
Pay and benefits

Cons
Not a mature organization
Too many reorganizations
Doesn't use best practices
More reactive than proactive
Role and responsibilities not defined.

Advice to Senior Management
Recognize your staff more often
Organization is way too top heavy with managers, you need to reduce the number of VPs and Directors.
Too many silos. That's old school thinking.
Human Resources is way to silent. They need to get more involved and at least survey the employees now and then.

Pros
They were flexible with the hours and would work around your schedule.

Cons
Lack of promotion or ability to do anything about lackluster employees. People in management positions knew very little about legalities of firearms sales and were hesitant to do the various paperwork required or and were not confident or well trained in either the federal requirements not company policies. This often prevented employees from being being able to offer timely customer service. Almost all positions are part time and morale is low because of a lack of enthusiasm from management.

Advice to Senior Management
Everyone needs more training, especially the store management. There is also a lack of consistency between managers as far as their ability to handle paperwork and their application of store policy.

Cons
Poor growth potential, even with a "growing company" Store manager don't even care about helping or even advancing your skill set. not even a bullet point regarding talent growth.
Horrible leadership; from the top down
Corporate office doesn't care about how you can never complete the constant " MUST HAVE COMPLETED" operational task that are constantly being thrown at you.
Company holds

Advice to Senior Management
Focus on cutting overhead cost, one day shipping to stores, build a culture that embraces positive store environment! Happy Employees = Satisfied Customers the basics are lost and unfortunately will never be found as online retailing will only chip away at this titanic that is incapable of reacting to the fast paced online shopping experience that is rapidly expanding. Nike posted massive profits last qtr and dicks did not? Lodge hunting business has scene massive declines and yet they are opening massive field and stream stores?

Pros
Overall, it is a very laid back position. Work with fun people who have good personalities (majority.) Great discounts.

Cons
Dealing with rude customers. The company doesn't care about their associates, or so it seems like. Management skill are questionable at times.

Advice to Senior Management
I think if they provided better compensation to not only the associates but the store managers as well things would be a little more streamlined. People would be more dedicated to their job as well. As of right now, a lot of employees think of it as a blow off "get me through college" job.

Pros
You are trained to sell their DICKS saving cards. That teachings you how to be pushy when it comes to sales. It is a great environment to work in always very tidy. Pays well for cashiers.

Cons
The cons are that its merchandise is very expensive so not a lot of traffic some days with customers. Sometimes it can be frustrating since the store is so big to get help in the front if an item isn't scanning well.

Cons
This company cares very, very little for its employees. The managers are unprofessional and upper management takes no action against poor business practices even when made aware of them. "Competitive atmosphere" breeds contempt between associates, and management often engages in or encourages this pettiness. HR is unresponsive and affects no change at all when consulted.

Pros
The employee discount is really good and I was lucky that management was flexible with my hours. I have been working in my store for a long time so they are really good about letting me work as little or as much as I want.

Cons
No payroll - DSG does not care about the employees in the field. All they care about is making the stockholders happy. If the company spent less time sponsoring every sporting event and put some of that money into payroll in the store you would have a much more successful company.
I have seen many shady managers in my time with the company. Managers protect people they should not and don't treat the good employees willing to work hard right. There are many employees that should have been fired many times over are still working because management has protected them.
HR department with DSG is a joke. As a HR professional I know how things should be done and investigated and this HR department does not follow-up or take care of employees that have expressed concern or issues at the store level. My store is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Advice to Senior Management
Better work-life balance. Corporate expects too much out of the people in the field. Remember they have families and lives too. Treat the field employees better - after all they are the ones that will help your company succeed. More payroll will produce more sales, better customer service, happier customers and reduce theft. To me this seems like a win win.
HR department needs to be overhauled and take a really hard look at how you manage investigations. You are one lawsuit aware from disaster.